Tools to Create, Use, and Convert ecocomDP Data

Work with the Ecological Community Data Design Pattern. 'ecocomDP' is a flexible data model for harmonizing ecological community surveys, in a research question agnostic format, from source data published across repositories, and with methods that keep the derived data up-to-date as the underlying sources change. Described in O'Brien et al. (2021), .

Bindings for the 'Geospatial' Data Abstraction Library

Provides bindings to the 'Geospatial' Data Abstraction Library ('GDAL') (>= 1.11.4) and access to projection/transformation operations from the 'PROJ' library. Please note that 'rgdal' will be retired during October 2023, plan transition to sf/stars/'terra' functions using 'GDAL' and 'PROJ' at your earliest convenience (see < https://r-spatial.org/r/2023/05/15/evolution4.html> and earlier blogs for guidance). Use is made of classes defined in the 'sp' package. Raster and vector map data can be imported into R, and raster and vector 'sp' objects exported. The 'GDAL' and 'PROJ' libraries are external to the package, and, when installing the package from source, must be correctly installed first; it is important that 'GDAL' < 3 be matched with 'PROJ' < 6. From 'rgdal' 1.5-8, installed with to 'GDAL' >=3, 'PROJ' >=6 and 'sp' >= 1.4, coordinate reference systems use 'WKT2_2019' strings, not 'PROJ' strings. 'Windows' and 'macOS' binaries (including 'GDAL', 'PROJ' and their dependencies) are provided on 'CRAN'.

General-Purpose Phase-Type Functions

General implementation of core function from phase-type theory. 'PhaseTypeR' can be used to model continuous and discrete phase-type distributions, both univariate and multivariate. The package includes functions for outputting the mean and (co)variance of phase-type distributions; their density, probability and quantile functions; functions for random draws; functions for reward-transformation; and functions for plotting the distributions as networks. For more information on these functions please refer to Bladt and Nielsen (2017, ISBN: 978-1-4939-8377-3) and Campillo Navarro (2019) < https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/order-statistics-and-multivariate-discrete-phase-type-distributio>.

Nonparametric and Cox-Based Estimation of Average Treatment Effects in Competing Risks

Estimation of average treatment effects (ATE) of point interventions on time-to-event outcomes with K competing risks (K can be 1). The method uses propensity scores and inverse probability weighting for emulation of baseline randomization, which is described in Charpignon et al. (2022) .

R Interface to Geochemical Modeling Software

A geochemical modeling program developed by the US Geological Survey that is designed to perform a wide variety of aqueous geochemical calculations, including speciation, batch-reaction, one-dimensional reactive-transport, and inverse geochemical calculations.

Variational Mixture Models for Clustering Categorical Data

A variational Bayesian finite mixture model for the clustering of categorical data, and can implement variable selection and semi-supervised outcome guiding if desired. Incorporates an option to perform model averaging over multiple initialisations to reduce the effects of local optima and improve the automatic estimation of the true number of clusters. For further details, see the paper by Rao and Kirk (2024) .

The R Interface to 'SyncroSim'

'SyncroSim' is a generalized framework for managing scenario-based datasets (< https://syncrosim.com/>). 'rsyncrosim' provides an interface to 'SyncroSim'. Simulation models can be added to 'SyncroSim' in order to transform these datasets, taking advantage of general features such as defining scenarios of model inputs, running Monte Carlo simulations, and summarizing model outputs. 'rsyncrosim' requires 'SyncroSim' 2.3.5 or higher (API documentation: < https://docs.syncrosim.com/>).

Reliably Return the Source and Call Location of a Command

Robust and reliable functions to return informative outputs to console with the run or source location of a command. This can be from the 'RScript'/R terminal commands or 'RStudio' console, source editor, 'Rmarkdown' document and a Shiny application.

Power Analyses for Interaction Effects in Cross-Sectional Regressions

Power analysis for regression models which test the interaction of two or three independent variables on a single dependent variable. Includes options for correlated interacting variables and specifying variable reliability. Two-way interactions can include continuous, binary, or ordinal variables. Power analyses can be done either analytically or via simulation. Includes tools for simulating single data sets and visualizing power analysis results. The primary functions are power_interaction_r2() and power_interaction() for two-way interactions, and power_interaction_3way_r2() for three-way interactions. Please cite as: Baranger DAA, Finsaas MC, Goldstein BL, Vize CE, Lynam DR, Olino TM (2023). "Tutorial: Power analyses for interaction effects in cross-sectional regressions." .

Lexicons for Text Analysis

A collection of lexical hash tables, dictionaries, and word lists.